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So, no Rufus Harley? Or yes?

Q: What is jazz music? Mingus: I don't know...and I don't care.

with their fingernails?

Had not heard too much of anything out of her for a while, so this blurb in the new New Yorker is plenty of good news about that! Matana Roberts DiMenna Center The saxophonist, composer, and multidisciplinary artist Matana Roberts put herself on the map with "Coin Coin", a breathtaking trio of albums that evoke black American history and culture with ferocity, inventiveness, and compassion. (A fourth installment arrives in October). In "I call america: Sandy Speaks...", part of a newer series of multi-media installations-performances sparked by present-day concerns, Roberts marshals a team of improvisers, media artists, and members of the International Contemporary Ensemble to contemplate the life and untimely death of Sandra Bland. After Ward, in a four-night Stone residency, Roberts returns to bare essentials with the drummer Gerald Cleaver, the guitarists Ava Mendoza and Liberty Ellman, an the pianist Vijay Iyer. (Aug 17 at 8; Aug. 20-24 at 8:30)

He gave so much for so long.

That laser on my CD turntable hurts my eyes, so much for that Play Six or whatever it's called, you know where you stack them and they drop down on top of each other.

I like the albums he did with Warren Marshall!

Billy Eckstine Rasio on Pandora. Thumb up all the Eckstine and Prysock, skip the Ella that doesn't have Louis, and let the algorithm handle the rest.

Did he ever jam with the Dead?

I don't have a five, sorry. Fin.

Like the photo album I bought that didn't have any pictures in it...where is the decency in these things?

The chick who wrote the Our National Anthem?

A fin a piece, not too shabby!

Flo hooked with Eddie, and that was when all the unresolved identity issues came to the surface. An interesting sags, to say the least!

Why do they say original albums and then you open them up and they're CDs? Talk about luring me in under a false pretense...

Had this in the car all week, may well leave it in for another. The "foo foo" factor in Mozart's instrumental music has always seemed to me to be hardwired into it, and/or my reception of it, and normally it hits hard and fast and I just leave the room ASAP. But not with this set. I can't tell you how or why, but this sounds like music with meat, all meat, not a spec of foo foo. I mean, if I listen for it, I can find it, but the point is, I'm (usually) too absorbed in the meat to even think about the foo foo, much less go looking for it. This was one helluva band! And this is one helluva set:

Dude, I think it's time for a road trip. Get one of those bigass crossover vehicles, bang it up good so it doesn't look all arrogant, and then get out into some unfamiliar America. Sell them outta your trunk, or trade them for food, or drugs, or sex, or whatever you can get for them. Do that until you get to the West Coast, find Chewy, listen to some cool jazz, and then load the trunk up again for the trip back east. Repeat as necessary. Take your phone, too. Nobody reads any more, so forget about writing a book, but post on You Tube every day and introduce the rest of us to the slices of life that have been introduced to you.

"Patterns" is great, Ed Begley Sr.'s best moment (that I know about, anyway). But he ain't no Hank Patterson, although also vice-versa.

otoh, I still watch Green Acres reruns because Eva Gabor looked so fine in them. It's not like I'm wanting to live in Hooterville or anything. It's just a pleasing 25 or so minutes of TV. Plus, hey, Hank Patterson transcends time.

I like Herb Robertson just fine, but make mine Hugh Ragin and, of course, Wadada. Unless they're the true top of the heap to which you're referring.

I'd guess it's a reference tape from the personal archives, not a studio master.

and you could be anybody, so could I, so could we all! Large thoughts, from Fred Small. I believe that Gayle Madden left a lot of maracalove behind when she's was done, so measure twice, cut once!

Crosby was on Hollywood Squares for a bit, wasn't he? The rebooted one? Seems I remember that.